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Media Inquiries: 434-924-5679 CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK TELETHON RESULTS ANNOUNCED |
| The Children’s Miracle Network Telethon, which raises money for the U.Va. Children’s Medical Center (CMC), received a total of $2,046,270 thanks to some of the most generous givers in the country. In fact, the 20 percent climb over last year’s total of $1.7 million helped earn CMC and WVIR-NBC 29 the Children’s Miracle Network Award for having generated the highest per capita phone proceeds in the country. The news comes as a special birthday gift of sorts. Coordinators of the telethon also celebrated 20 years of fundraising and miracle making this month.
Some lasting memories included the return of former NBC 29 weather anchor, Robert VanWinkle, who had a long history of co-hosting the program. There also were flashbacks from the first ten years of the telethon and appearances by former CMC patients who are now healthy adults. Neighbors, who have made it a yearly contest to try and out-donate each other, pushed the telethon total over the $2 million mark. Tom and Joan Sheehan of Keswick called in a pledge of $20,000. Minutes later, their neighbors Al and Cindy Schornberg met the challenge by pledging $21,000. The amount garnered by this year’s Children’s Miracle Network Telethon will enable the CMC to continue funding research projects that will one-day benefit children everywhere. June 14, 2004 |